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LONG/’36
THE PRESIDENCY OF HUEY PIERCE LONG
BY
SCOTT MORALES
PROLOGUE
Most people outside of Louisiana have never heard of Huey Pierce Long, and why should you? The youngest Governor in Louisiana history, he served from 1928 and 1932 and then US Senator from 1932 until 1935, Long was a colorful character and a force to be reckoned with. Running Louisiana as his own fiefdom, Long had been impeached twice and in 1934, he was under investigation by the FBI for voter suppression. Long had been a staunch supporter of first-term President Franklin D. Roosevelt, until Roosevelt instituted the New Deal in 1933. Long couldn’t go along with the social program. Not because of its high ideas of Relief, Recovery and Reform, but because Long didn’t think it had gone far enough, for government control. With its far-reaching programs and employment projects, aimed at getting people back to work in the early days of the Great Depression, why would Long, a fellow Democrat, oppose such a worthy outreach?
Simple. Long was a Socialist and a firm believer in sharing the wealth of the nation, taking it away from the capitalist companies and entrepreneurs who built the country. Long even went so far as to break away from the established Democratic party and started his own, “Share the Wealth,” party. He started at home, requiring all employees of the State of Louisiana to have a ten percent deduction from their paychecks, to go into Long’s own campaign fund, into a treasure chest he called, “The Deduct Box.”
The ‘Share the Wealth” party was a direct threat to the Democratic party, since it was pulling more than ten percent of the voting public, about four million votes, away from a struggling Roosevelt. With Roosevelt’s change in stance on businesses, many corporations that had supported his presidency were pulling away from him.
Worse case scenario would be for Long to run as an independent, splitting the Democratic votes, and the Republican, Al Landon, win the election. Then after Landon established four more years of Herbert Hoover’s failed policies, the people would be calling out for a savior
Up steps, Huey Long. Savior and Dictator.
However, fate stepped in on September 8, 1935, in the form of a practicing physician named Carl Weiss. After a contemptuous vote on the gerrymandering of a voting district away from a political enemy, Judge Benjamin Pavi, Long was confronted by Weiss, who was Judge Pavi's son-in-law, in the back hallway of the Louisiana State Capitol. Weiss shot Long once through the stomach and was immediately killed by Long’s security force. Long survived for thirty hours, before succumbing to his wounds, thus ending any change of a Long presidency.
But, what If…